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18 February 2009, 15:26Getting used to Internet may kill the ability of independent thinking, the Russian Church warns
Moscow, February 18, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church is concerned about virtual reality as it prevents person from independent thinking.
“Virtual reality should reverse its trend of preventing people from independent thinking. Access to information has become too easy for a student, a pupil, a researcher,” deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said at a round table on Wednesday.
According to him, today it has become very easy “to find everything you need in two clicks and very often you find already worked-out schemes for studies, research work, management decision, some intellectual lay-outs for public speaking.”
“How not to lose the ability of thinking, how to cultivate independent brainwork in the world of digital reality is, perhaps, a question of the future. I don’t know the answer, but if we don’t find it, we’ll face sweeping and very dangerous development of anti-intellectualism in the society used to not thinking and not doing anything by themselves and it will lead to the crisis of society management,” Fr. Vsevolod said.
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